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It’s been hard for me to be in my body lately. It keeps feeling like I don’t know what I’m capable of, which makes me feel strange and alien and displaced.

Today my love told me to do some flexing, and she took these photos. She told me that she wanted me to see myself the way she sees me. I’ve never felt so loved and cared for and understood in my whole life.

Barnard 33, Horsehead Nebula

NGC 602

The small and large Magellanic clouds in the Southern skies are dwarf galaxies that orbit our own Milky Way. They are both also home to a large number of clusters, both open and globular.

NGC 602 is an open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a group of new blue giants can be seen in the centre. These stars formed from the gas and dust now visible around it, but when the stars ignited, the radiation of the stars pushed back the dust and gas, creating a shock wave. In doing so, it concentrated the elements and gravity has begun to form additional stars in the elephant trunks surrounding it. 

In time, those new stars will have a similar effect, having already produced 3 bursts.

A “Jellyfish” Galaxy Swims Into View by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

A study break, and stretch.

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Don’t Miss These 7 Spectacular Sights Of The Summer Sky

“The summer skies are there every years to offer us a respite from the hardship of our daily lives, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, they remain one of the few sights that almost all of us still have some opportunity to take in. On a clear night, overhead, an enormous but brilliant collections of stars known as the Summer Triangle dominates the skies this month. If you head outside and attempt to view any of the transient sights out there — the Moon, Comet NEOWISE, the planets, the meteor shower, etc. — take some time and enjoy these deep-sky objects, too.

The night sky is always out there for anyone curious to explore it. Even with the ever-increasing number of satellites and the (sometimes severe) light-pollution that we all must reckon with, these natural wonders are just as intrinsically spectacular as they’ve ever been. Turn your telescope or binoculars up at any or all of these seven objects, and you’ll be looking years, centuries, or even millennia back in time, from giant collections of stars to a preview of our own Sun’s death. The Universe, when you see it for yourself, never disappoints.”

Have you been going out to see the Moon at night? How about Comet NEOWISE? Maybe Jupiter and Saturn? Or perhaps you’re planning on viewing next week’s Perseid meteor shower? While you’re out there, take a glance towards the heavens and notice that giant “triangle” overhead. Inside it, there are seven spectacular sights that any telescope or pair of binoculars can reveal to you.

Even if you have no experience with telescopes at all, these seven objects are well within your reach. Here’s how to view them for yourself.

so.uh. i kinda wrestle dudes. lol

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